There are many different ways in which modern Corpus Linguistics can be used to enrich
and broaden our understanding of legal discourse. Based on the central principle of co …

ABSTRACT The Routledge Encyclopedia of Translation Studies remains the most
authoritative reference work for students and scholars interested in engaging with the …

This book examines legal language as a language for special purposes, evaluating the
functions and characteristics of legal language and the terminology of law. Using examples …

Over the last decade EU institutions have raised the profile of quality, as evidenced by an
increased number of translation policies and guidelines. The objective of the chapter is to …

Les activités de traduction juridique ont une histoire particulièrement longue. Quant aux
traités internationaux, cette histoire remonte à plus de trois millénaires: le traité de paix …

As central aspects of legal translation practice and research, legal terminology and
phraseology are a prominent area of inquiry in Legal Translation Studies (LTS). This …

This study compared the linguistic difficulty of legal translated texts with the syntactic
complexity of native English legal writings in order to demonstrate the statistically significant …

The multilingual lawmaking mechanism of EU law undoubtedly works and surprisingly well
too, considering the complexity inherent in a legal system that interacts with 28 national …

This chapter discusses the applications of genre analysis in translation research and
training. Following initial interest in text types in the 1970s, genre analysis gained in …

This paper discusses the textual fit of translated EU law–that is, how its language differs from
that of nontranslated Polish law–at the level of deontic modality patterns. The study is part of …